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One time I did a project for someone. Pay was supposed to be 15K. Upfront was 10K. I collected upfront. Delivered the project but to pay me my balance became a problem. I was going to let it go if this lady was nice. But she wasn’t. So I became an asshole too.
I got a bulk sms service that offers APIs and paid for 1000 smses. And then I wrote a piece of code that sends this woman an SMS every morning with just 3 words and my name as sender: “you owe me”. At first it was a joke. A little annoyance.
But little annoyances can easily grow into major ones if they persist. She went and reported me to a friend after like 2 months. I told my friend the program will run for 1000 days. This is just day 60. This is just the beginning.
So because she went and reported me to my friend I also changed the code to send 2 SMSes, randomly between 6am and 6pm with four words and my name as sender: “you still owe me”.
This ran for another month and then I changed the code to send 4 smses randomly in the day. This was when most mobile phones can’t hold more than a few smses so her phone was getting filled and I wasn’t not going to stop.
One day after about 4 months I got a text message from her: Please stop. I’ve paid you your money.

I’m generally a nice guy so I checked my balance, see my money have been paid and I stopped. Even though I really badly wanted to continue.
I can’t reply to all the comments. 😭😭😭😭.

If you want to set this up. Checkout justsms.com.ng. They have an API. All you need then is cron and curl.

If you want me to set it up for you. DM me. It won’t cost you much.
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